Oversight Committee
Purpose
The Oversight Committee helps to ensure close communication within each and across domains. This Committee deliberates, makes decisions, advises, provides strategic oversight, ensures inclusiveness and collaboration in the pediatrics community, reviews the goals, timelines, reports and serves as advocates for this Initiative.
Commitment
Five years; quarterly Oversight Committee calls; periodic emails; attend the AMSPDC sponsored workforce summits
Members
Robert J. Vinci, MD, Initiative Co-Lead
Board Member, AMSPDC
Joel and Barbara Alpert Professor, Pediatrics, Boston University School of Medicine
Laura Degnon, CAE, Initiative Co-Lead
Executive Director, Association of Medical School Pediatric Department Chairs (AMSPDC)
Leslie R. Walker-Harding, MD
Board Member, AMSPDC
Senior Vice President and Chief Academic Officer, Department of Pediatrics Chair, Seattle Children’s Hospital
Joseph W. St. Geme, MD
President Elect, AMSPDC
Physician-in-Chief and Chairman of the Department of Pediatrics, Leonard and Madlyn Abramson Endowed Chair in Pediatrics, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
Ann Marie Reed, MD
President, AMSPDC
Samuel L. Katz Professor of Pediatrics, Professor of Pediatrics, Chair of the Department of Pediatrics, Duke University
Sherin Devaskar, MD
Past President, AMSPDC
Mattel Executive Endowed Chair, Department of Pediatrics, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA
Mary Leonard, MD, MSCE
Board Member, AMSPDC
Arline and Pete Harman Professor and Chair of the Department of Pediatrics, Stanford University School of Medicine
Adalyn Jay Physician in Chief, Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital Stanford
Domain Leads Committee
Purpose
The Domain Leads Committee helps to ensure the work within each domain moves forward in a thoughtful, collaborative manner. It’s essential each domain has close communication with the other domains. This Committee deliberates, advises, provides strategic suggestions, ensures inclusiveness and collaboration in the pediatrics community, and serves as advocates for this Initiative.
Commitment
Five years; monthly Domain Leads Committee calls; periodic emails; attend the AMSPDC sponsored workforce summits
Members
Robert J. Vinci, MD, Initiative Co-Lead
Board Member, AMSPDC
Joel and Barbara Alpert Professor, Pediatrics, Boston University School of Medicine
Laura Degnon, CAE, Initiative Co-Lead
Executive Director, Association of Medical School Pediatric Department Chairs (AMSPDC)
Rebecca Blankenburg, MD, MPH, Domain 1 Lead
Immediate Past President, Association of Pediatric Program Directors (APPD)
Associate Chair of Education, Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital, Stanford School of Medicine
Jill Fussell, MD, Domain 2 Lead
Immediate Past Chair, Council of Pediatric Subspecialties (CoPS)
Developmental Pediatrics and Habilitative Medicine Section Chief, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences College of Medicine
Laurel K. Leslie, MD, MPH, Domain 2 Lead
Director of Research, The American Board of Pediatrics (ABP)
Mary Leonard, MD, MSCE, Domain 3 Lead
Board Member, AMSPDC
Arline and Pete Harman Professor and Chair of the Department of Pediatrics, Stanford University School of Medicine
Adalyn Jay Physician in Chief, Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital Stanford
Joseph Gigante, MD, Domain 4 Lead
immediate Past President, Council on Medical Student Education in Pediatrics (COMSEP)
Professor of Pediatrics, General Pediatrics, Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Organizational Representatives Committee
Purpose
The Organizational Representatives Committee helps to ensure the work of the Pediatrics 2025: AMSPDC Workforce Initiative is a community effort! We seek a minimum of 1-2 representatives of each stakeholder organization.
Commitment
Representative(s) to serve five years; periodic emails; attend the AMSPDC sponsored workforce summits, ensure your organization is aware of and involved with components of this Initiative that make most sense.
Members
Academic Pediatric Association (APA)
Louis Bell, MD, AGP Accreditation Committee
Latha Chandran, MD, MPH, President
Teri Turner, MD, MPH, M.Ed, President-Elect (2020-2021), President (2021-2022)
American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP)
James Baumberger, MPP, Senior Director, Federal Advocacy
Anne Edwards, MD, FAAP, Chief Population Health Officer
Mark Del Monte, JD, CEO/Executive Vice President
American Association of Colleges of Osteopathic Medicine (AACOM)
Robert Cain, DO, President and CEO
American Board of Pediatrics (ABP)
Laurel Leslie, MD, MPH, VP, Research
Adam Turner, MPH, PMP, Research Program Manager
American Pediatric Society (APS)
Clifford Bogue, MD, Secretary-Treasurer 2019-2024
Association of Administrators in Academic Pediatrics (AAAP)
Liz McCarty, MS, President 2020-2021, Past-President 2021-2022
Desiree Brown, MA, Department Administrator, and AAAP Board Secretary 2019-2021
Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC)
Mary Halicki, Program Director, Careers in Medicine
Michael Dill, Director, Workforce Studies
Association of Medical School Pediatric Department Chairs (AMSPDC)
Sherin Devaskar, MD, Past President
Mary Leonard, MD, MSCE, Member
Ann Marie Reed, MD, President
Joe St. Geme, MD, President Elect
Leslie R. Walker-Harding, MD, Board Member
Association of Pediatric Program Directors (APPD)
Rebecca Blankenburg, MD, MPH, President 2020-2022
Patricia Poitevien, MD, MSc, President Elect 2020-2022
Children’s Hospital Association
Mitch Harris, Director
Council of Pediatric Subspecialities (CoPS)
Debra Boyer, MD, MHPE, Past Chair
Jill Fussell, MD, Chair
Angie Myers, MD, MPH, Chair 2021-22
Council on Medical Student Education in Pediatrics (COMSEP)
April Buchanan, MD, President Elect 2019-2021, President 2021-23, Past President 2023-25
Joseph Gigante, MD, President 2019-2021
Rachel Thompson, MD, Co-leader of the Career Advising Collaborative (2019-present). Three-year term
FuturePedsRes
Tyler Bruinsma, Co-Director
Nick Heitkamp, MD, MSc, Co-Creator
Mekala Neelakantan, BS, Co-Creator
Adaobi Okocha, MPH, Co-Director
National Association of Pediatric Nurse Practitioners (NAPNAP)
Kristin Hittle Gigli, PhD, RN, CPNP-AC, Liaison to AMSPDC 2020-2025
Andrea Kline-Tilford, PhD, CPNP-AC/PC, President Elect- 2020-2021; President 2021-2022
National Board of Osteopathic Medical Examiners (NBOME)
Erik Langenau, DO, MS, Committee Member
Robert Lee, DO, MS, Committee Member
National Pediatrician-Scientist Collaborative Workgroup (NPSCW)
Audrea Burns, PhD, Founding Co-Chair 2018-present
Jordan S. Orange, MD, PhD, Co-Founder
Daniel Moore, MD, PHP, Member
NICHD/NIH
Rohan Hazra, MD, Acting Associate Director for Extramural Research (replacement member may be proposed)
Next Gen Pediatricians
Xavier Williams
Society for Pediatric Research (SPR)
Carlton Bates, MD, Executive Committee Council Member Physician Scientist Lead
Stephanie Davis, MD, President 2020-2021
University of Michigan
Gary Freed, MD, MPH, SME